Schlagwort-Archive: Tiger

Talking about differencial learning (DL) I have no problems to use this in a trainings with players over ten years. Some drills out of DL you can see on our youtube channel.

Today the kids (group with kids from 7 to 9 years) gave me an idea to use the DL in tennis10s. One of my favourite metaphers or analogies in coaching kids is the „tiger“-metapher: standing like a tiger and waiting to catch the „loot“, what means to attack, to hit the ball and shout out loud like a tiger, what gives them an imagination of the tennis basic position.

Today, some of the kids were a bit tired and stood on the court like some old men, using their racket like a walking stick. That inspired me to tell them, to stand like „an old man/woman“, using the racket like a „walking stick for elderly people“. This task made, from the first moment, a big difference to nearly everything we had done before! Apart from that it had a special motivation for the kids!

There you played rallies withyourpartnerfrom the baseline. Every timeyourballcrosses thenet, you shout the distance to thenet.Renameloud (!) the balldistanceat 50cmintervals. Thus the player reaches the„concentration on the essentials“ andthe non-essential, such asthinking about theimpacttechnique is hidden!

Thisdrill is also for childrenon allfieldsizes, with the correspondingballs.The distanceof the ballto thenet canbe specifiedwith three possible„dimensions“:

just overthe net: mouse

mean distance: Tiger

highover the net: giraffe orelephant ordinosauror…..

This is funand has the same„trickthe mindeffect“as in spacer 1 for olderplayers.